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Date: Tue Mar 28 03:20:17 2006
From: nick at nickwithers.com (Nick Withers)
Subject: (no subject)


On Tue, 28 March, 2006 10:00 am, Alexander Hristov wrote:
> IM not saying the entire disk !

Well, logically speaking a partition is essentially an "entire disk", even
if it is one of 14 hypothetical "entire disks".

> Only the partition u choose the torrent to be saved in has to be full
> Like when u have 14 partitions and one of them is full i dont think
> this is a problem ?

It is if you're trying to write more data to it! :-)

> So this is a security bug

Not sure if you'd call it a *security* bug. Certainly should be handled
better though!

> On 3/27/06, Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski@...il.com> wrote:
>> This really doesn't seem like a security bug though... sure some site
>> could target opera users and try to force them to download torrents,
>> but when your disk is already full this sounds like the least of your
>> problems...
>>
>> -sb
>>
>> On 3/27/06, Alexander Hristov <joffer@...il.com> wrote:
>> > Opera > 8.02 with torrent support cant handle not enough space on
>> drive
>> >
>> > If your partition is full and u choose to save a torrent on this
>> > partition opera will start using 100% of your cpu and momery and
>> > eventually crash
>> >
>> > Tested with opera 9 p 2
>> > --
>> > Best Regards,
>> > Aleksander Hristov < root at securitydot.net > <
>> http://securitydot.net >
>> >
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>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Aleksander Hristov < root at securitydot.net > < http://securitydot.net >
>
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